Monday, May 28, 2012

It has been a headline everywhere
and cannot be underestimated, the daughter of the dictator of Cuba said in San
Francisco, California, at the heart of the American gay community: Cuba is
betting on Obama.Mariela Castro had said it, a
phrase that hasn’t been made lightly, to the occasion. Castro’s agents are
programmed, they have their chip very well synchronized to say what they have
to say ... and when they have to say it.

Of course Mariela knows it. This
is neither a coincidence nor a phrase sparkling from her brain. It could make the pretty and
expected effect among the gay community in California that is mostly Democrat,
but in Florida has a reverse effect, and Florida is the key state that any
candidate should win to be the next President of US, as many analysts had said.So, what's behind all this?

You don’t need to go too far to
realize that praising Obama you are driving Romney directly to win Florida. Those statements made in
California would not help at all to Obama because, after all, California is a
traditionally Democratic state.But Florida is something else,
and that’s the key issue.

It is well known that traditionally
the Cuban regime has always given to the Democratic administrations missteps, which
commonly they have traditionally being the ones who have reached Castro out ...
or sort of.

Do you remember Jimmy Carter?

Jimmy Carter opened the US Interests
Section in Havana, lifted some of key issues in the American embargo in his
presidential term and relaxed the conflict between both sides of the Florida Straits.What was Cuba’s government reaction?

Simple. They created the MIG-23’s
crisis and then it Castro provoked Mariel boatlifts crisis, the mass exodus of
Cubans to Florida, emptying Castro’s prisons of delinquents.

And the result? Carter lost the
election to Reagan.I'm not saying that was the most
important reason though, but there is no doubt that must have influenced.

You cannot be too paranoid to
suspect that behind all this there is more than a mere coincidence.The words thrown into the California’s
audience would immediately get trapped by the media, and the media would send
everywhere and hence it gets immediately the Romney’s effect: to ask and
command to retract the support of Mariela Castro.He has not done it yet.

And that is Castro’s gambit in
this politic chessboard.Tacit support for Romney, a
setback for Obama and the perfect gambit to keep a hostile policy against Cuba:
that is the way Castro wants to maintain the status quo ... to continue hanging
from power.